Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Garden ornaments that they don’t sell at Home Depot. Plates from Salomon de Caus 1620 work “Hortvs Palatinvs: A Friderico Rege Boemiae Electore Palatino Heidelbergae Exstructus.” Collections of the University of Heidelberg.
Grotto in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 26 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-watersFountain in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 4 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsStatuary in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 8 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsFolly in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 11 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsFountains and statuary in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 15 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsStatuary in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 20 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsGate with animal statuary in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 23 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbsGrotto and artificial lake ? in the gardens of Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg. 1620. Page 11 from Salomon de Caus’ Hortus Palatinus. Matthieu Marian, engraver. Collections of the University of Heidelberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/caus1620/0012/image,info,thumbs
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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